WashPost Reveals It Passed On Alito-Upside Down Flag Story In 2021

Alex Christy
May 25th, 2024 2:00 PM

The conservative reaction to the freakout over Justice Samuel Alito’s flags has been to argue that this is a phony scandal ginned up by liberals and journalists (but we repeat ourselves) to delegitimize the Supreme Court. A Saturday report from the Washington Post appears to confirm those beliefs, as Justin Jouvenal and Ann Marimow reported that the Post passed on the story…

 

WashPost Offers Positive Story on 'Hero' That Foiled Leftist Shooter a

Tim Graham
September 19th, 2013 11:26 AM
Foiled shooter Floyd Corkins is being sentenced on Thursday for his attempted mass shooting at the conservative Family Research Council on August 15, 2012. On the front of Thursday's Metro section, Washington Post reporter Ann E. Marimow offered a positive story on security guard Leonardo Johnson, who was shot in the arm as he prevented Corkins from his murderous plot. "I want to look in his…
 

WSJ Omits Jackson Jr.'s Party Affiliation; NYTimes Leads With It, But

Ken Shepherd
August 15th, 2013 3:45 PM
Of the East Coast's most prestigious papers -- The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post -- only the Journal today failed to note Jesse Jackson Junior's Democratic Party affiliation, with staff writer Devlin Barrett failing to mention that fact in his 11-paragraph story. For their part, Washington Post staffers Ann Marimow and Rachel Weiner did mention Jackson is a…
 

WaPo's Marimow Fails to Reveal 18-month Delay in Unsealing Rosen Warra

Tom Blumer
May 24th, 2013 1:13 AM
One obvious question which occurred to me and I suspect others when I read Ann Marimow's first account at the Washington Post dated May 19 of the search warrant issued in 2009 for the personal emails of Fox News reporter James Rosen was: "Where has this thing been hiding?" The "Affadavit for Search Warrant" is dated May 28, 2010. Why did it come out just this week? Marimow didn't say. More…
 

It Gets Worse: WashPost Reports Obama DOJ Also Spied on James Rosen of

Tim Graham
May 20th, 2013 7:16 AM
The Washington Post on Monday reported that Obama’s Department of Justice was investigating journalists before they started wiretapping the Associated Press – for one, Fox News correspondent James Rosen in 2010. Their headline wasn't "Obama Team Also Spied on Fox News." Fox wasn't in the headline, on A-1 or on A-12, where the story continued. Newly obtained court documents “reveal how deeply…
 

WaPo Buries Opposition to Tuition Bill; Baltimore Sun Paints GOP Criti

Ken Shepherd
May 11th, 2011 11:24 AM
Yesterday liberal Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley (D) signed into law a measure allowing illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition rates at public colleges and universities. Covering the story today, the Washington Post offered this bland print edition headline on page B1: "O'Malley signs bill allowing immigrant tuition breaks." The move "bucks trend in other states" and a "showdown…
 

WaPo Notes 'New Hope' for Transgendered: Dudes Using Ladies' Room

Ken Shepherd
September 15th, 2008 1:33 PM
Maryland's state Court of Appeals recently blocked a ballot initiative to overturn a Montgomery County law that would, among other things, give transgendered persons the right to choose which public restroom they will use, regardless of their biological gender. That "Ruling Inspires New Hope For Transgender People," exulted the Metro section front page* headline for Washington Post staffer Ann…